$83.26
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2020
Summary
Retro Computing: A Visual Sourcebook of Home Computers
Home Computers showcases the quirky and characterful beginnings of a commercial product that would come to unite the globe: the personal computer.
As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful and most idiosyncratic comput…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500022160 |
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| ISBN-10: | 050002216X |
| Author: | Alex Wiltshire, John Short |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.28kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 210mm |
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‘A world away from the devices used today, the computers in the book illustrate the rapid march of technology’ - Observer‘A definite page-turner’ - Custom PC
About The Author
Alex Wiltshire
Alex Wiltshire is a writer and consultant for videogames, design and technology. He is the author of the bestselling book Minecraft Blockopedia, and the editor of Britsoft: An Oral History. Previously editor of Edge, he has also written for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer and Eurogamer.
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